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Table 2 A comparison between our method and other target prediction tools.

From: Gene bi-targeting by viral and human miRNAs

Tool

Total number of

predicted pairsa

Number of TP

predicted pairsb

Sensitivity

Running time

miRanda

22,857

309

35%

2 hours and 42 minutess

PITA

28,032

661

75%

5 hours and 10 minutess

RNA hybrid

43,693

731

83%

31 minutes

Our method

24,571

625

71%

40 seconds

  1. aOut of 63,360 pairs. bOut of 873 experimentally verified pairs.